class on the first day I was not sure what to expect. I was excited about a class were diversity and the issues faces by minorities could be discussed but I wasn’t sure how talking about what are often tense issues would play out in a classroom environment, but as the class progressed I was impressed by the openness and honesty everyone expressed when talking about these issues. I learned that understanding diversity and the oppression that came with being the minority and privilege that comes with being…
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Being a Diversity Facilitator (DF), a liaison between the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the student body at Rice University, requires often working with administrators, advisors, and new students who have different backgrounds and clashing perspectives. During the Orientation Week of my first year as a DF, one of the advisors, whom I had trained in a diversity workshop a few days earlier, engaged in discriminatory behavior against a student. The advisor refused to help a student learn more…
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1 Reflections of My Diversity Reflections of My Diversity Zakeia L. Thomas HRMG 5000 Webster University 2 Reflections of My Diversity Abstract Diverse groups consist of people of all different backgrounds. This could include people of different religious backgrounds, the rich or the poor, gender, or ethnic groups. The number of diverse groups is large. Growing up in a different home environment and going to school changes your views. Learning the differ…
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succeed and achieve their full potential. You also need to always be dedicated and follow your instincts. There are also six different zones of leadership Reflection, Society, Diversity, Ingenuity, People and Business. Every one of these plays a critical role in today’s business. Reflection is your motives, beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Reflection is when you’re asking yourself how you make sure you won’t make bad decisions, and that you will always learn from your mistakes. Society means you have…
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Week 4 Learning Team Reflection Week 4 Learning Team Reflection Diversity in work teams is essential; to be able to maintain this they would need to provide many different aspects ranging from gender, race, and experiences that can be utilized in the team’s task. The individual abilities of each team member must complement each other in order to achieve maximum team effectiveness. Team members’ personalities are equally as important. There are many different steps that can be taken to make…
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may also want to explore: the different types of CPD activities you could undertake and how the CPD builder can contribute to your professional development plan how you can use the Institute for Learning tool REfLECT to record your activities and reflections in your personal learning space. Support from LSIS's Teaching and Learning Programme Subject Learning Coaches (SLCs) and Advanced Learning Coaches (ALCs) supporting coaching activities play a central role in LSIS's Teaching and Learning Programme…
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their way of working – or should change their way of working by thinking ahead and using a structure to suit an activity. Donald Schon (1983) identified that learning in practice could be enhanced by 2 different kinds of activity – Reflection in-action and Reflection on-action.…
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essay I will discuss how you wold address diversity of learning in classroom. Diversity is the wide variety of something. When we think of diversity, multiculturalism may be the first thing to come in mind. Diversity in the classroom may include: students coming from diverse socioeconomic back group, students with learning and physical disabilities, students with different learning styles and gifted students. I as a teacher will teach the classroom what diversity means and how it is manifested in their…
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am going to discuss it in relation to respecting the service user as an individual, respecting diversity and promoting personal choice. Petty (2016) tells us that diversity means to accept the differences between individuals and to treat everyone with respect, regardless of their beliefs, cultures, background or lifestyle. Similarly, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (2013) states that diversity is about respecting individuals own way of life and respecting them as individuals. Reflecting…
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Children’s School and focuses on five key tenets: 1) The “P” represents “Praxis or the Mastery of Knowledge and Skills;” 2) the “R” represents “Responsible and Respectful Professional Dispositions;” 3) the “I” represents “Individual Uniqueness and Diversity;” 4) the “S” represents “Social Justice;” and 5) the “M” represents “Metamorphosis and Transformation” (Beyer, 2012, p. 6). The approach may be helpful in moving teachers from the point of understanding their own identities and biases toward creating…
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